One hero down: The untold story of peacekeepers

Mr Mejah Mbuya hops off his bike outside a building that seems to be unoccupied. “There used to be a plaque around here somewhere,” he murmurs, searching in vain.

When Fatma Ali said goodbye to her son in January, she expected to see him again three months later—not as a terror suspect but as a brilliant science student coming home for a break.

>That day they forced me to withdraw the remaining forces from Mutukula to Bigada. By the time we reached Bigada, everybody was trembling. This really weakened us. In early January 1979, my unit was relieved and went back to Masindi.

In his heyday, Sheikh Yahya Hussein was a household name. He frequently mingled with presidents and kings, including the giants of East African politics, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.

>As the nation commemorates the 15th anniversary of the death of founding president Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, fresh details  have emerged on how the globally acknowledged statesman built an eight-year-long case as a curtain raiser to  the war against General Idi Amin Dada – one of Africa’s most brutal dictators.

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Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza threatens to fight African Union peacekeepers if they are deployed to the country.

The US military is to help fly African Union peacekeeping troops from Burundi into the Central African Republic, officials say.

The UN Security Council votes to send a 12,000-strong force to the Central African Republic (CAR) to help end continuing religious violence.